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My outsiders headcannons!!!

Darry desperately needs glasses because he has near sight, but he refuses to get checked. Every so often, he'll squint at signs while driving, and Soda will be in the passenger seat and tell him to at least consider to get his eyes checked.

Dallas says he perfers dogs because they make him look tougher, but he's a car person deep down.

When Johnny and Dally died, Ponyboy wrote letters upon letters to the both of them. He never showed anyone and probably had them hidden in his drawers os something, but very year on their birthdays and holidays or even after rumbles, Pony writes to Johnny and Dally.

Modern Cherry would LOVE Sabrina Carpenter ‼️

The curtis gang are the type of kids to be try hards in gym.

Johnny gets super awkward around kids who are like 2-10 (same..)

Soda isn't dumb he's just neruodivergent. (Shocker!!)

Modern Two-bit would secretly listen to the most BASIC white girl music, and the ONLY person who knows is Pony, but they've both agreed to never talk about it.

Modern Darry would hate the word skibidi ONLY because Soda NEVER stops saying skibidi rizz.

Steve has a tooth gap and is really insecure about it.

Two-bit most definitely put on a tutu and a crown and then had a princess tea party with his little sister.

Johnny is sassy af and I'm here for it 🙏

Soda LOVES kids! Like he wants to be a father someday, which was one of the reasons why he was depressed when Sandy got pregnant because he wanted to be with both of them

Dally has a secret talent and its music! He's naturally a good guitar player, and once he once saw a random guitar at the bar once and snuck it in his room, he sometimes plays for fun.

Modern Steve would wear Nike everything. You can't change my mind.

Two-bit does stuff without thinking. He'll tell someone exactly what he's thinking in that moment. He just doesn't have a filter.

Johnny has a silly stray cat that follows him! He calls the cat his little friend since he doesn't have any name for it

Darry Curtis was always gay- the musical just makes it more obvious.

I know it was never Hinton’s INTENTION for any of her characters to be perceived as queer, she claims she didn’t write them that way, and that’s fine. In fact, I think reading The Outsiders as a group of straight men who have the bonds they do is actually a really great critique of toxic masculinity, in that we would see the contrast between their interactions one on one or alone with the group, compared to their macho, hyper masculine personas they showcase in public. HOWEVER, I think it’s incredibly hard to read it that way because Hinton accidentally and completely unintentionally made Darry Curtis one of the gayest characters in modern literature. It’s not far fetched. It’s not a stretch. I’m saying that if you have even a surface level understanding of subtext that it is obvious. Darry’s queerness is as open  in the novel as he is in his life- that is, it’s never said explicitly, but it’s VERY easy to see the signs. In fact, the way it’s threaded into the narrative but very talked around leads me to believe that even though Darry wasn’t out, it might have been an open secret within the gang- or at the very least they probably had some suspicions. 

For one, in the book Darry is never mentioned even once to have had a girlfriend, or even to have gone on dates, but we know he was popular and well liked. You can’t convince me that a handsome, popular football player, whose peers liked him enough to vote him Boy of The Year, didn’t have more than a few girls interested in him, but Pony’s narration never even alludes to Darry having been interested in one. For all he talks up Darry’s achievements, the scholarship he won, the future he could have had and everything he gave up, women/a girlfriend were never a part of it- which, given the time period and Darry’s reliance on hyper masculine social scripts, seems highly uncharacteristic unless there was a plausible explanation for his complete disinterest (ie. being gay). Now, examine this hyper masculinity a little further, and you can see it for what it is, a) a defence mechanism (because it separates him from stereotypes of what a gay men are like, so if he’s ‘manly’ enough no one will ever suspect or discover what he is) and b) the unfortunate complete opposite of that. Just like how hyper femininity characteristic to femme lesbians is off putting to men, the same is true to some degree about hyper masculine men being somewhat off putting to women. Not to the same degree, and probably not as obviously, but Darry’s  over the top masculinity might be the one thing effective in keeping (some) women away for reasons they can’t quite put their finger on. Point is, Darry was never a ladies man, to a degree that is very not heterosexual, especially for the time period.

So, now that we’ve established Darry’s complete disinterest in dating women,  his hypermasculine personality and it’s possible implications, let’s turn to other textual support for his queerness: his relationships with other male characters. I’m not talking about the gang- his interactions with all of them are very friendly/familial-  but he has a bond with Tim Shepard that is clear on the page but left largely unexplained (their weird eye contact and high mutual respect, the fact Tim was at their house once with no explanation), and his homoerotic run in/fight with Paul at the rumble. Both these relationships have plausible deniability- they’re not explicitly gay, but they’re also not NOT gay. Again, Hinton didn’t intentionally make Darry gay, but he very much is, and as far as closeted gay characters go, he’s a fairly well written one, because the subtext is very much THERE if you know what you’re looking for, but the queerness of his interactions is shrouded in this very real this COULD mean nothing characteristic of a lot of closeted queer interactions. 

Having said all this, I think the musical making Darry and Paul’s fight (somehow) even more charged and homoerotic than it is in the book was a wise choice, because a lot of the rest of the subtext was changed/missing from the musical adaptation. I’ve seen the ritfr analysis looking at the lyrics as they relate to Darry’s queerness, and I do think they follow the veiled/subtextual theme, but I don’t think they’re as explicitly gay as they’re touted to be. However, I do think the musical does a good job of highlighting Darry’s queerness given the medium they’re working with, and the actors do an amazing job portraying it without saying it outright, making it more obvious than it is on the page- but Darry was canonically gay in the book too, and let’s not pretend otherwise.

(Lmk if you want to see my analysis of the other Curtis’ queerness as it related to the book + musical).

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